Jacket2 - Adrián Esparzahttp://jacket2.org/taxonomy/term/4006/0
en'Authentic texts'http://jacket2.org/commentary/authentic-texts-0
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<h3 class="subtitle">Translation is trade without commerce</h3> </div>
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<figure><img src="http://jacket2.org/sites/jacket2.org/files/imagecache/wide_main_column/EsparzaOneandtheSamelabel_0.jpg" alt="Adrián Esparza, &quot;One and the Same&quot;" title="Adrián Esparza, &quot;One and the Same&quot;" class="imagecache imagecache-wide_main_column" /><figcaption>Adrián Esparza, "One and the Same"</figcaption></figure> </div>
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<p>Displacement. Chosen and unchosen migrations. Free and unfree trades. How displacement is also a kind of placement, an unfamiliar vantage point from which to renegotiate terms, terrains, parameters, possibilities. Translation is willing and willful displacement. In moving a word, phrase, line, sentence, stanza, paragraph, idea, framework from the space of one language to the space of another, something utterly transformed is created, and something that is still very deeply (though not essentially) the same as what it was to begin with (which was not immobile in the first place). Alchemy</p>
<p>In a conversation, <a href="http://atomikaztex.wordpress.com/2011/05/30/memorial-day/" target="_blank">Sesshu Foster</a> recently referred to the space of translation as “no-man’s land.” I’d agree and also add the idea of “every person’s land,” in the sense that no one and everyone might belong there, or perhaps that the very concept of “belonging” no longer pertains—the question is one of moving through space, rather than claiming it. Of using the terms imposed upon us (as <a href="http://www.newspapertree.com/culture/486-profile-adrian-esparza" target="_blank">Adrián Esparza</a> uses the typical Mexican blanket sold to tourists, for example) to subvert the intentions of their imposition. To <a href="http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1011&amp;context=anne_giangiulio" target="_blank">unknit</a> the weave that would bind us.</p>
<p><a href="http://jacket2.org/commentary/authentic-texts-0" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Adrián EsparzaCharles ReznikoffHeimrad BäckerHugo García ManríquezknittingMagda SayegNAFTAÔscar del BarcoPatrick GreaneySesshu FosterSpencer TunicktranslationVincent KlingMon, 30 May 2011 14:48:19 +0000jenhofer5650 at http://jacket2.org